"The errors are absolutely incredible" is not something I can relate to. Most of the errors I have to deal with just say: "Syntax error" (somewhere around a range of lines). Not helpful at all and definitely lots of room for improvement.
I don’t like this guy’s presentation style - he’s kind of a blow hard and I feel like his attempts at humor feel more like a waste of my time than they feel funny. And more importantly - what is the deal with the “circle game”? I didn’t get the joke and searched about it. It appears to be either a reference to a game where you trick people into looking at some random gesture and then punch them if they do - or it’s a white supremacist gang sign ... I don’t actually know which meaning comes first or which is more intended by the speaker ... but even if Mr Wheeler doesn’t intend to flash a white supremacist gang sign - why would he go out of his way to create uncertainty about his intended meaning like this? “Oh I’m not a white supremacist I just don’t mind being confused for one” doesn’t seem like a thing you should want to force yourself to need to say - and with the need to say this so artificially manufactured, it doesn’t seem very likely that the claim would be at all genuine ... Is the white supremacy market really so important to the react and reason community that you need assholes like this guy running inclusivity campaigns to welcome bigots and other veins of radicalized white male assholes into the fold?
Perhaps it's a generational thing? I'm in my late 20s and I still remember very well being tricked and coerced into looking so that I could catch another punch. One particularly clever friend had the idea to take a picture with his phone as "Hey check this out" and holding out a phone screen was significantly more effective. The circle game was still pretty common even as an older high school student. We have very little control over what hate groups choose to adopt into their behavior, the sign for "OK" has been adopted by some neo-nazi groups, but most people will see it and still think "OK" or maybe "That's fine". Ceasing to use these things because of such groups adopting them feels like accepting defeat to these groups to me.
It seems to have been popular before these connotations. 4chan picked it up online and memed it away like they do, and like anything in 4chan some people take it to a sinister level and start adding new meaning to it. Doesn't mean those fuckers just get to decide what it means for everyone though.
dontlikethetube So what you are saying is we should constantly be keeping up with what 4Chan and white supremacists idiots adopt into their vernacular ? Like 95 percent of the people on earth he has no idea what about their adoption of it and is not trying to create ambiguity that is simply silly. I am quite sure you could take every speech on RUclips and find a line someone says that has been made into a 4chan meme.
This moved me from "Oh, facebook wrote another programming language" to excitement and the desire to learn it. Thank you!
Definitely the most entertaining talk on ReasonML.
Reason is awesome
Reason is the future
Reason is the present. It's here.
excellent presentation ken
Great! Thank You
that is fast!!!
"i work in new jersey cause i'm an hr liability" 🤣
"The errors are absolutely incredible" is not something I can relate to. Most of the errors I have to deal with just say: "Syntax error" (somewhere around a range of lines). Not helpful at all and definitely lots of room for improvement.
I don’t like this guy’s presentation style - he’s kind of a blow hard and I feel like his attempts at humor feel more like a waste of my time than they feel funny.
And more importantly - what is the deal with the “circle game”? I didn’t get the joke and searched about it. It appears to be either a reference to a game where you trick people into looking at some random gesture and then punch them if they do - or it’s a white supremacist gang sign ... I don’t actually know which meaning comes first or which is more intended by the speaker ... but even if Mr Wheeler doesn’t intend to flash a white supremacist gang sign - why would he go out of his way to create uncertainty about his intended meaning like this? “Oh I’m not a white supremacist I just don’t mind being confused for one” doesn’t seem like a thing you should want to force yourself to need to say - and with the need to say this so artificially manufactured, it doesn’t seem very likely that the claim would be at all genuine ...
Is the white supremacy market really so important to the react and reason community that you need assholes like this guy running inclusivity campaigns to welcome bigots and other veins of radicalized white male assholes into the fold?
What would you mom think about you being so mean to Ken after he wrote her an entire album?
Jody LeCompte what’s up with the white supremacy messaging in this talk?
Perhaps it's a generational thing? I'm in my late 20s and I still remember very well being tricked and coerced into looking so that I could catch another punch. One particularly clever friend had the idea to take a picture with his phone as "Hey check this out" and holding out a phone screen was significantly more effective. The circle game was still pretty common even as an older high school student.
We have very little control over what hate groups choose to adopt into their behavior, the sign for "OK" has been adopted by some neo-nazi groups, but most people will see it and still think "OK" or maybe "That's fine". Ceasing to use these things because of such groups adopting them feels like accepting defeat to these groups to me.
It seems to have been popular before these connotations. 4chan picked it up online and memed it away like they do, and like anything in 4chan some people take it to a sinister level and start adding new meaning to it. Doesn't mean those fuckers just get to decide what it means for everyone though.
dontlikethetube So what you are saying is we should constantly be keeping up with what 4Chan and white supremacists idiots adopt into their vernacular ? Like 95 percent of the people on earth he has no idea what about their adoption of it and is not trying to create ambiguity that is simply silly. I am quite sure you could take every speech on RUclips and find a line someone says that has been made into a 4chan meme.